Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

The Bomb, Iran's Mullahs and Doomsday

It is the holiday season and we all have received this most welcome present: the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate about Iran’s nuclear problem. Since 2003 the mullahs running Iran have, on their own and through their own goodwill, have ceased all activities aimed at acquiring the bomb, so says the report.

Therefore, there is nothing to worry about folks, nothing to spoil the holiday season, and there is good reason to be upbeat about a safe and secure world.

Superficial reading of the CIA’s presentation of the findings is the comfort pill that successfully sugar-coats swallowing even the most unpalatable news.

A word of advice for President Bush: now you can also relax and give the celebratory mood a boost by ordering the armed forces to stand down. We have enough trouble in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hot spots of the world. This huge worry about the mullahs’ bomb is a distraction and doesn’t rate anything. Why listen to the warmonger alarmist Dick Cheney and his Neo-cons and keep us all in a jittery mood about the men-of-Allah mullahs?

Mr. President, in addition to the comforting NIE report (which was incidentally ordered by your adoring fans, Congress Democrats), you probably want to hear the dissenters and the skeptics before impulsively singing the praise of the mullahs, as Jimmy Carter did, or hastily launching a re-enactment of “ Shock and Awe,” this time on Iran.

* Prudence demands that you, as our President, make your decision on the basis of facts, first and foremost, and then weigh the opinions, conjectures, and advice of others. You need to do the same with the report. Don’t let the medium, the clever packaging of the report, become or even obscure the message. Once you do that, you will find an awful lot of troubling issues. Let me summarize things as I see them.

* Iran, under the late shah, launched a plan to achieve “Surge Capacity:” A code word for getting all the ingredients and procedures down pat for making the bomb quickly, short of actually making it; a clever power-play.

* A saint and revered man of God, according to none other than Jimmy Carter (who considers himself as another great man of God), the late Ayatollah Khomeini cancelled the nuclear program with the same saintly and prompt edict that he cancelled the life of thousands of Iranians for daring to disagree with his system of medieval Sharia rule.

* After Khomeini’s demise, another mullah much more crafty and ambitious, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, became the president and re-activated the program secretly, while the IAEA watchdog snoozed contentedly on the job.

* Decades later, some Iranians opposed to the rule of the murdering mullahs finally by-passed the watchdog and showed the world proof positive that the mullahs were racing tirelessly with their scheme of getting the ultimate weapon. This information greatly alarmed the United States of America and Israel. The revelation seemed to bother no European nation, the Russians, or the Chinese. Somehow these nations figured that they would let the U.S. do all the worrying about the looming menace while they focused on the lucrative business deals they had diligently worked out with the mullahs: something reminiscent of the cozy deal the French and the Russians had going with the butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein.

* As time went on, you, Mr. President vowed that Iran would never be allowed to achieve its goal during your watch. You kept using all kinds of threats and promises in order to persuade the mullahs to drop the project, to no avail. When a belligerent end-of-the-worlder, Holocaust-denier Ahmadinejad, became the Islamic Republic of Iran’s president, things started heating up greatly. Time and again, the bellicose Ahmadinejad kept vilifying the Great Satan and its sidekick Israel for having the gall to demand Iran abandon its program while his two main adversaries had their own arsenal of nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad informed the world that what the Islamic Republic does is within its own national rights. He shored up his credibility cleverly by dispatching endless series of negotiators to meetings with the Europeans. He was successfully stalling for time, while working around the clock to get to the Surge Capacity.

* The NIE report assures us that the IRI abandoned its nuclear weapon program some three years ago. So, there is really nothing to fear and even less reason to maintain the dangerous game of brinksmanship with the mullahs. Upon superficial reading of the report one may get the impression that the mullahs are not exactly the saints of Allah as Jimmy Carter had thought them and helped bring them to power. Yet, they neither are as scheming un-repenting villainous zanies that their enemies portray them.

* Now we have something that no one could imagine was possible only weeks ago. The latest comprehensive NIE report has something in its sleigh to appease, if not please, all the quarrelling children. Ahmadinejad boasts to the world that it stood up to the Great Satan, embarrassed it and didn’t even blink. You, Mr. President, can meekly end your term without having to make good on the threat of using force to make the mullahs drop their bomb quest. The Democrats who hate you and the Republicans more than they dislike or fear the zany bomb-wielding mullahs can happily celebrate and have new ammunitions for their weapons to capture the White House. The IAEA can keep its plush job of trotting around the world and doing nothing to warrant its existence. The Europeans can keep on doing lucrative business with the gas station the mullahs operate. The U.N. Security Council can stall, water down, or completely abandon any new sanctions on the IRI. The Russians and the Chinese can delight at the U.S. humiliation and keep on making money from their nuclear and oil deals. See how great it is? Just one report and a huge problem is solved and everyone is happy.

* But I hate to be the dissenting voice. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, particularly now that the West and much of the non-Islamic world is preparing for holiday festivities. Threats to my life by the Islamists have failed to silence me. I have not taken to remaining silent just to keep people in their comfortable deadly delusions. Here is my take on the whole thing.

1. The best predictor of the future is the past. The religious fanatic mullahs’ record is one of deception, dissimulation, treachery, violence and much more. These Quran-trained and directed agents of a wrathful Allah can never be trusted. They are master schemers. They have been at the business of scheming for centuries. They have perfected the art of deception, doubletalk, double-dealing and treachery. Hence, for the NIE’s report to be based primarily on supposed interception of secret conversations of high-ranking Iranian leaders is nothing more than a practice in gullibility. Prudence demands better proofs, much better proofs.

2. The defected/abducted Iranian general Askari a while back was seen by some as a veritable trough of inside information about Iran’s nuclear program. Yet, this man may simply be a planted mole.

3. If indeed the IRI has abandoned its entire program to achieve Surge Capacity, then why is it that it does not allow the IAEA unimpeded access to over some 30 known facilities? The IAEA is allowed to visit only a handful of them, and only with prior notice.

4. The bleeding heart liberals, otherwise known as the Useful Idiots, citing the NIE demand in chorus that we should immediately begin negotiating with the mullahs with no pre-conditions at all. We never had much leverage with the mullahs. What little leverage we had is wiped out by our own NIE. What these Useful Idiots don’t seem to understand is that one can only negotiate with a party who is indeed interested in negotiation.

The extortion-high oil money has intoxicated the mullahs. They see themselves as the Tolooi (ascending like the rising sun) and non-Islamic world as the Ofooli (sinking like the descending sun). Why negotiate any live-and-let-live arrangement with a dying adversary, they reason. The mullahs are only interested in the eventual full surrender of the non-Islamic world. Any concession they make is either tactical or altogether worthless. These villains have a mile-long sheet of past broken promises and treachery. The Useful Idiots neglect to tell us how one negotiates with these inveterate connivers. They seem to think that throwing a couple of bones to the mullahs will keep them gnawing at the bones and leave their own flesh intact: a deadly delusional and wishful thinking.

5. Some influential pundits pontificate that we can live with a nuclear Iran, if it comes to that. They say that Iran would never use the bomb. Because the mullahs, the fanatic zanies as they may be, are not going to risk Iran becoming a radioactive parking lot by the massive U.S. retaliation. Wrong. Once again, these well-healed arrogant know-it-all pundits are seeing things through their own spectacles.

The civilized people cherish and celebrate life. The Islamists relish death as stated in their ideology and practiced daily. Recall what Hassan Nasrullah; the leader of Lebanon Hizbollah had to say about why his people would prevail in the war with Israel. He said, “Israelis love life. We Muslims love death.” These fanatics firmly believe in an incomparably magnificent pleasure-filled next world that awaits the faithful Muslim. To them, this world is nothing but a heap of dust, while the next is a paradise of eternal lust.

6. It is fine for Hassan Nasrullah to claim the love of death by the faithful. But, do these soldiers of Allah actually walk the walk and actively seek death? The answer is indeed a resounding yes. It is a pillar of belief in Islam that whichever side is killed, Islam and Muslims are the beneficiaries of the death. Based on this horrific ideology of death, the Muslims have visited death on untold numbers of both Muslims as well as non-Muslims. The Khominist regime of the IRI sent tens of thousands of its own children to their death to clear minefields in its holy war with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. Not limiting itself to this horrific act, the Khominists executed tens of thousands of political dissenters without the least due process. Islam wins, either when you kill or you get killed. That’s the motto of the religion of death.

7. The killer Muslims joyfully strap on bomb vests and detonate them in a marketplace, in a wedding hall, in schools, in hospitals, in funeral processions, and even in mosques. These acts of killing and maiming innocent people happen daily. The bomber kills himself for the privilege of killing as many as possible in the process. The rewards that the killer is convinced awaiting him warrants the most hideous act. And there is an over-abundance of these murderers who vie with one another to kill and get killed.

8. Suicide bombing that maims and kills dozens is often dismissed as an act of aberration by an individual deceived by ruthless conniving handlers. But, no one would ever contemplate using the nuclear bomb when it entails the certainty of his own destruction as well as his country, so goes the deterrence logic.

Logic, what logic? Fanaticism generated by belief defies logic at every bend. A zealot end-of-the-worlder Ahmadinejad has already climbed to a position of great power. What if another Ahmadinejad-type gets to have his finger on the bomb’s trigger? Would he pull it, even if it is going to kill him and all his people? Only a fool would bet against it.

My advice to the President and the people of my adopted country is: go ahead and make merry, enjoy the gift of life, but don’t let down your guard and make sure that no one lulls you into the deadly trap of complacency. Yes, if the mullahs get the bomb, they will make use of it in numerous ways. They will use it for blackmail, they will use it in small packages through untraceable proxies, and they might even launch it by their missiles in a homicide-suicide fashion which is their trademark. After all it is the mullahs’ deeply-held belief that their cataclysmic act will expedite the coming of the Saheb-ul-Zaman (the Lord of the Age), whence he would set the world on the righteous course while those who have hastened his coming will be immersed eternally in the joys of pleasure in Allah’s promised paradise.


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Amil Imani is an Iranian born, pro-democracy activist who resides in the United States of America. He is a poet, writer, literary translator, novelist and an essayist who has been writing and speaking out for the struggling people of his native land, Iran. Amil Imani's Home Page: www.amilimani.com.


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Name: vbv
Date: Monday December 17, 2007
Time: 01:39:55 -0700

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Iran , the land of the great persians,land of Zarathustra who is the inspiration for the Abrahamic religion , having great ancient civilization , is now reduced to Arabic barbarianism called "islam". From great religion of zoroastrianism,which is an off-shoot of the much more ancient Vedic religion, is now slave to the most bigoted creed which promises just a vulgar,lewd,lecherous paradise of an evil monster called 'Allah'. From the sublime to the filthy gutter have these modern-day persians have fallen!I hope there is redemption some day from the present predicament that these iranians find themselves as of now!


Name: reader
Date: Monday December 17, 2007
Time: 07:16:41 -0700

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FACT USA = over 10.000 nuclear warhead......................... Rusia = 2000-3000 nuclear warhead......................... china = <500 nuke......................................... british and france < 100 nuke............................. Israel < 200 nuke......................................... North Korea < 10 nuke..................................... India < 50 nuke........................................... Pakistan < 50 nuke........................................ Iran .....0 nuke ( MAYBE a few in 5 year).................


Name: reader
Date: Monday December 17, 2007
Time: 07:25:39 -0700

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what make USA and its ally Think that they can have nuke and other country cant??? because they are "GOOD GUY?" fuck it. BAN ALL nuke first then we can talk that no one should have it. other than that its just ONE BIG HYPOCRITS because iran is islam ? Hell, pakistan is islam too you know? why they are "OUR FRIEND"?? and Iran dont?


Name: U.K. TODAY.
Date: Monday December 17, 2007
Time: 11:08:34 -0700

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Dear READER, before you comment on a subject, (Even if it is way beyond your comprehension) please ensure that you have the vocabulary to make your sentences at least seem semi-literate. THANK-YOU.


Name: marilyn
Date: Tuesday December 18, 2007
Time: 09:45:53 -0700

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Although I would indeed love to live in a world where nuclear weapons were nonexistent (although their presence has indeed appeared to be a deterrent to war -- somewhat), at this stage , what is significant is the nature of the regime that has the bomb, or is working towards its acquisition. When a nuclear arsenal is placed in the hands of true democracies, or peoples who do not claim to adhere to a "culture of death", there are assurances that they will not be used -- the deterrent factor becomes major. A nuclear arsenal in the hands of the mullahs, on the contrary, worries me greatly. After all, these are individuals who maintain the belief that they are the sole interpreters of the Koran, a belief that concedes to themselves a tremendous amount of power. Most religions contain checks and balances. Although there are "rules" within every religion by which all religiously oriented people must adhere, generally these "rules" are open to a great deal of debate and interpretation that has gone on over the centuries. From my understanding of Islam, that has happened there, as well, its continuous evolution has been halted some centuries ago. Islam, as well, appears to be different from all the other religions in that they have not only embraced a culture of death, but that they appear to have submerged Islamic ideology into a greater political world-view, that places all the resources of their people into the political hands of a selected few. And these few maintain a rather well publicized agenda that includes recreating the world into their own image of Islam. It is ironic that in seeing themselves as the junior partners with God in this recreation of the world order based upon their notions of righteousness and justice, they have, in actuality, displaced God altogether -- the God who believes in a "culture of life" and in the sacredness of every human being.


Name: Clark
Date: Tuesday December 18, 2007
Time: 11:08:29 -0700

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Iran is run by crazies. Bottom line. Reader. LEARN TO READ AND WRITE IN ENGLISH, if you are going to comment on an ENGLISH forum. The US has 10000 plus nukes BECAUSE OF MADMEN like Khameine and Mahmoud I'mADamnNutjob who espouse the murder of innocent people in the name of the cult that is Islam. Islam is NOT a religion of peace, and we civilized people are waking up and realizing that. Nasrallah says muslims love death, fine by me. I say give it to them. Nuke Mecca. Level southern Beirut. Wipe Waziristan from the map.


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Date: Tuesday December 18, 2007
Time: 11:45:33 -0700

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clark do it yourself if u hav the balls!


Name: DA
Date: Tuesday December 18, 2007
Time: 16:59:35 -0700

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Hi there, well there are good advices given on this page. Like nuking Saudis and banning USA from making Dday bombs. Nice Utopia..but noblemen... USA will never do that as Saudis are a major part of US economy and Saudis are good friends bacuse they have oil. Iran is just a naughty child who speaks a lot...its just a war of words...so keep enjoying it and let the bomb things a matter for supermen of white house who are addicted to oil.


Name: Lex
Date: Friday December 21, 2007
Time: 06:25:38 -0700

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Hmm, Iran's mullahs decide to wipe out the "Zionist Entity" and nuke Tel Aviv. The U.S. responds on behalf of its destroyed ally by turning Tehran as well as every suspected Iranian nuke site into molten glass. Allah is greatly pleased at the size of the harvest, both of infidels and martyrs, but the rest of the Islamic world doesn't know whether to cheer or weep. Am I missing something?


Name: sebbie
Date: Friday January 04, 2008
Time: 02:47:23 -0700

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you are all missing the one vital link in the equation. Israel. Israel will not stand by idly and let Iran go nuclear.what are the bets that they will wheedle the latest F-22's out of the yanks and bomb the sh-t out of the iranian nuke program, nullifying the fancy russian anti aircraft missile system with the latest and best american technology,sticking a thumb in Putin's eye and pulling the coals out of the fire for the wishy washy west ? Nobody seems to like the jews (israelis )but they alone are the only people with a clue as to how to treat the insane ragheads


Name: Mad mountain
Date: Friday January 04, 2008
Time: 22:32:22 -0700

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Wow, great dialogue. After 21 years of the US "Green machine" Army I can tell you this... .. . The fire that was lit in Iran in 79' and the 'capture of US citizens' that followed, still burns today. It is getting hotter all the time. And to stumble upon Amil and his writing/ point of view, only affirms what I've known for almost 30 yrs. The battle line is being drawn. Know what side to be on. The enemy I see, wears a cloak of decency. I will be looking to the rise of "America's Holy Warriors".


Name:
Date: Thursday January 10, 2008
Time: 18:43:06 -0700

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bottomline iran will get nukes as the world stares and wipe israel from the map usa better watch it or they will be next! Allah ho akbar!


 
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